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Nothing Personal with David Samson

MAILBAG: You’re fired! Stealing team gear; That Michelle Tafoya interview

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.53K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

It’s another mailbag. We are sorry! But CONTENT CONTEN CONTENT! Someone asked me about the story of me firing an employee for wearing a Red Sox shirt to a Marlins game. They want me to explain exactly why this happened. (10:45) Someone asked me about the Yankees cutting a third-round pick for taking team gear and selling it. The reports were he scammed some of those fans looking for memorabilia. (24:15) FINA is swimming’s world governing body. They have voted to restrict the participation of transgender athletes in women’s competitions. Someone asked me my thoughts on this… (35:45) Someone asked me to comment on the Michelle Tafoya interview she had with the Le Batard Show. Yes, I will. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Music

0:20.0

Mailbag

0:21.0

Nothing personal word of the day. Yes, I am either in Uganda, maybe Tanzania,

0:26.7

or on Safari. I mean, not right now because I am recording another show for you.

0:30.7

We are trying to do a show three times a week while I am gone. I thought we would not do

0:34.1

any, but Coke and I, we said to ourselves, you have so many great questions. Mailbag is

0:39.1

when you put a question in your Apple review or you get on my Twitter, David P. Samson

0:44.2

or Instagram or TikTok or anywhere and we are going to answer questions. This show is

0:50.4

pretty cool because what Coke does is he took all the questions that came in that he

0:55.1

wanted me to answer and he split them into different themes. I don't know if you figured

0:58.8

out the themes. I'm not sure what the theme is of this one, but I do like the questions.

1:02.4

Hi, David. I just want to start right now. Big fan of the pod. Well, that's one way

1:08.0

to get your question on the air. Hope this is something you can use on a mailbag. Yeah,

1:13.0

I am. You've talked about how you fired an employee who wore Red Sox merchandise. I

1:19.3

have a few questions. How do you as an employer, word this in your employee handbook, assuming

1:25.8

this is covered? Uh oh. Does home versus road versus out and about make a difference? Does

1:33.2

the level of employee make a difference? Example, a non-paid intern who goes home and watches

1:38.9

the Marlins on the road. I'm glad that you asked this question because some time ago,

1:48.8

we did a segment on a regular episode or maybe it was on a levitard episode, Coca actually

1:55.2

on one of the local hours where I explained to skipper. So it was levitard, John Skipper

2:01.8

and to Dan levitard that I have no problem firing people who deserve to be fired and people

2:06.4

got confused and upset by that. Thinking, wow, this guy's robotic. This guy has no heart.

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